Josh Laura
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That's a 37-year-old man.
That's not a baby.
Like, that's not my baby.
Quick question.
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm so excited to be here.
To define pathetic, I think obviously it's a very loaded word.
But I do think that there is something about the specific interplay of emotionality and manipulation, right?
I think that there is this element of, like, this person is a little bit of a loser.
they're trying to make it lovable.
And in the piece, I was like, I feel like this, the wool is being pulled over my eyes.
I feel like you are being a loser.
You're being ineffectual.
You're being not good at whatever you're trying to pursue in order to make me feel bad for you.
So therefore we can't criticize you anymore.
And it's not the like sort of Buzzfeed Tumblr feminism of like, boys are bad.
It's more specifically the idea that like,
you are trying to manipulate me by getting me to feel bad for you because you are not successful or not interesting or not emotional.